Panel
1740-1770 (made)
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This Dutch leather panel was originally part of a mural hanging. Made in the mid-18th century it embraces the rococo style with its scrolls and wavy floral forms known as rocailles. The design is extremely elaborate and busy displaying flowers (including the tulip) and fruits such as plums, cherries and grapes. All are painted in opulent, rich colours from shades of green, blue and red to greys and browns.
To create a textured and three-dimensional effect the leather has been embossed by compressing a heated metal plate with the rocailles design onto it. The scroll work was then gilded with a silvered, yellow varnish to simulate gold and the flowers, fruits and foliage painted using both veining and shading effects.
To create a textured and three-dimensional effect the leather has been embossed by compressing a heated metal plate with the rocailles design onto it. The scroll work was then gilded with a silvered, yellow varnish to simulate gold and the flowers, fruits and foliage painted using both veining and shading effects.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Embossed and gilded leather |
Brief description | Embossed gilt leather panel, painted with alternating bunches of flowers and fruits on top of gilt rocailles and scrollwork. Painted in red, green, blue, grey and brown on a blue ground with touches of a red glaze, Dutch, ca. 1740-1770. |
Physical description | Embossed gilt leather panel, painted with alternating bunches of flowers and fruits on top of gilt rocailles and scrollwork. Painted in red, green, blue, grey and brown on a blue ground with touches of a red glaze. |
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Gallery label | Panel for
wall covering
1740–70
Dutch Republic,
now the Netherlands
Leather, embossed,
painted, silvered and
varnished
Museum no. 475-1869(2015) |
Object history | Wall hanging in the collection of the 'Geldersche Kasteelen Stichting, 1768. Panels/fragments in the former collection Dulud-Quenardel, Paris (Clouzot, pl. XLV); Museo de la Piel, Igualada; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden, inventory number 7496; Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach am Main, inventory number 2450; Museo National des Artes Decorativos, Madrid, inventory numbers 319 and 435; Coll. Colomer-Munmany, Vic (Sp.) inventory numbers C421 and C1457, unknown; Posada del Potro, Cordoba, inventory number 35; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, temporary inventory number box number 10; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, inventory numbers 1903-9-12 and 1903-11-5 |
Summary | This Dutch leather panel was originally part of a mural hanging. Made in the mid-18th century it embraces the rococo style with its scrolls and wavy floral forms known as rocailles. The design is extremely elaborate and busy displaying flowers (including the tulip) and fruits such as plums, cherries and grapes. All are painted in opulent, rich colours from shades of green, blue and red to greys and browns. To create a textured and three-dimensional effect the leather has been embossed by compressing a heated metal plate with the rocailles design onto it. The scroll work was then gilded with a silvered, yellow varnish to simulate gold and the flowers, fruits and foliage painted using both veining and shading effects. |
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Accession number | 475-1869 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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